Desperately Seeking Helen (1999)
Directed by Eisha Marjara
Genres - Historical Film |
Sub-Genres - Biography, Social History |
Run Time - 80 min. |
Countries - Canada |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis
Director Eisha Marjara's story takes us first to her childhood in snowbound small-town Quebec and then to Bombay, India, where she desperately tries to track down Helen, a famous movie star in the world's largest dream factory. Helen becomes a passage into Marjara's real world--her unsettling youth, life-threatening anorexia, and the devastating 1985 Air India bombing, which took the lives of her mother and sister. This video revisits the '70s pop culture of Marjara's youth and enters the fascin
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autobiography, childhood, movie-star, film-industry, India (subcontinent), pop-culture, death-in-family, search, youth, anorexia-nervosa, Canada
